Here are the things Ron DeSantis thinks are "woke"

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/here-are-the-things-ron-desantis-thinks-are-woke/


Big Tech? Woke. Infrastructure spending? Woke. Academia? Definitely woke.

The word that was once a rallying cry for Black Americans to stay alert to racial injustices has been co-opted by the conservative right to denounce any educational, cultural, or policy position that attempts to reckon with our nation’s racist history. People appropriate the language of Black struggle all the time. Like a game of telephone, the more politicians use a phrase as shorthand for things-I-don’t-like, the less it means. Take your pick of victims: socialism, critical race theory, Black Lives Matter. On the right, these have become less ideas to be discussed than large, blinking, neon signs to indicate destruction of conservatives’ idea of “America.”

Arguably no one has done more to dilute the meaning of “woke” than Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. When the potential 2024 GOP nominee proposed legislation to ensure that a student “not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race,” he named it The Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act. Get it? “Stop W.O.K.E.,” for short.

But that’s hardly the start of it. We dug up some examples of DeSantis’ attempts to label anything that bugs him as “woke.” And, don’t worry, this list is a work in progress.

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[RKP5637]

1. DeSantis, is a flaming asshole. Hopefully more people will become aware of what this guy is about.

[kimbutgar]

2. He's also an evil SOB!!!!

[RKP5637]

5. In fact, an authoritarian fascist evil SOB. The guy is dangerous as hell, to anyone. Even his

own staff can't stand him.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. You forgot Deathsantis is a white supremacist too, who's no better than former Nazi-in-Chief tRump

[kimbutgar]

7. My name for him Is Desatan

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Good one!

[RKP5637]

8. All cut from the same piece of cloth, and unfortunately in the US they have company! n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Woke is when you ask people to wear masks during a deadly pandemic.

Asleep are the murderous thug governors who want viruses to spread and kill people.

[AZProgressive]

4. The word woke is a dog whistle these days

[ymetca]

9. I kinda thought I was a little "woke"

until I read about how much of an asshole George Washington was, even in his day.

I'm starting to get the sneaking suspicion that our greatest "founding fathers" were the ones we've never heard of. Oh, so much "wokeness" yet to be elucidated!

So, yeah, DeSantis may be correct in attributing "wokeness" to the gradual breaking down of over two centuries of brutally sustained indoctrination with actual facts.

Yep, you nailed it, bro.

And that's precisely what makes him SUCH an asshole!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

10. Woke is for R's things they don't like or understand....

Desantis is a douche...Florida gets what it gets.

[underpants]

11. Racists and polluters - that's the core of the Republican mission

That’s who they represent. They message around it but to me that it’s.